Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-15
SHE WENT DOWN.
TIE SINKING OF THE SCHOONER
GEORGE II. H0Yr.
A Rough Voyage The Crew Escape-The
oyster Business Personals
and Briefs.
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Correspondence OF the Rlchmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK, February IA, 1887.
On Saturday afternoon the schooner
George H. Hoyt, Captain A. j. Hub
bard. bound from Baltimore to Cape
Charles with cargo of rubble-stone,
sunk off the Wolf Trap in about sixty
feet OF water. The crew took 10 the
boats with their valuables and escaped
TO the lighthouse, where they were
cared for. Captain Hubbard arrived
here this morning and noted protest.
The schooner had rough experience.
She sprang aleak soon after leaving
Baltimore and had rough head-winds
all down the bay. and was about six
days sinking. The captain, finding
the schooner was bound to go down,
tried hard to run her ashore under New
Point, but she settled too rapidly, and
went down six miles distant. The
wreckers will 60 to the sunken vessel
tomorrow and examine her condition.
The oyster inspectors seem to keep
busy in the counties, and every day or
two vessels are taken in charge and the
owners subjected to various fines for
infractions of the law The oyster
men Of this section have done poorly
this season, not on account OF prices,
but owing TO the scarcity of oysters.
Nothing is to be made now on the rocks
in James river, whera. the growth of
bivalyes used to he so abundant and
fine, while below Craney island boat
never stops, the mud-dumpers from
the harbor-dredgers having totally de-
stroyed the oyster-grounds. In York
river the bivalyes are growing scarcer
every year, and all vessels now go
farther up the bay, principally to the
Rappahannock " Its very unremu-
nerative business now" said Captain
William Sharrett, "A prominent oyster
catcher, to your correspondent, and
the license system of the State is an
outrage. The revenue derived does
not pay the State for collecting it, and
it is a great hardship on the majority OF
the catchers, the most OF whom make
wretchedly poor living at best. Such
al onerous license system does not exist
anywhere in the country, while in all
the States, except Maryland and Viz
ginia, the taking of oysters from the
natural beds is free | am thankful to
say + am now out OF the business, et-
cept TO handle plants for shipment. "
The loss Of Postmaster Lindsay, OF
Portsmouth, and that of his oyerseer,
at Single Landing, n. c., on Friday
afternoon will reach $4,000; no in
surance-
Sneak thieves are keeping the police
of both cities busy.
Rev. l.. A. Cutler, of Richmond, will
Join Rev. j. Cooper in a revival meet
ing at the Church Of the Disciples this
week.
The Pythian lodges Of this city have
donated 20 cents per capita to the Hines
memorial fund.
Joseph Lappin, q white man, ar
rested here on the charge of commit
ting burglary at North Landing, was
turned over to the sheriff of Princess
Anne county this morning and taken to
Jail at Princess Anne Courthouse. A
shot-bag of money taken from the store
was found on the person Of Lappin.
1t is stated that the Virginia Beach
railroad and the hotel property on the
beach will all be sold shortly. The en-
terprise does not seem to thrive, or
something unknown to the public If the
matter.
Very heavy frosts here for three days
past. u.